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Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
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Layer 3 Features, page 1-9
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Monitoring Features, page 1-10
Ease-of-Deployment and Ease-of-Use Features
The switch ships with these features to make the deployment and the use easier:
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Express Setup for quickly configuring a switch for the first time with basic IP information, contact
information, switch and Telnet passwords, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
information through a browser-based program. For more information about Express Setup, see the
getting started guide.
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An embedded device manager GUI for configuring and monitoring a single switch through a web
browser. For information about launching the device manager, see the getting started guide. For more
information about the device manager, see the switch online help.
Performance Features
The switch ships with these performance features:
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Autosensing of port speed and autonegotiation of duplex mode on all switch ports for optimizing
bandwidth
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Automatic-medium-dependent interface crossover (auto-MDIX) capability on 10/100/1000 Mb/s
interfaces that enables the interface to automatically detect the required cable connection type
(straight-through or crossover) and to configure the connection appropriately
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Support for up to 1546 bytes routed frames
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IEEE 802.3x flow control on all ports (the switch does not send pause frames)
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EtherChannel for enhanced fault tolerance and for providing up to 8 Gb/s (Gigabit EtherChannel)
full-duplex bandwidth among switches, routers, and servers
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Port Aggregation Protocol (PAgP) and Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) for automatic
creation of EtherChannel links
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Forwarding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 packets at Gigabit line rate
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Per-port storm control for preventing broadcast, multicast, and unicast storms
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Port blocking on forwarding unknown Layer 2 unknown unicast, multicast, and bridged broadcast
traffic
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Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP) server support and Internet Group Management
Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP Versions 1, 2, and 3:
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(For CGMP devices) CGMP for limiting multicast traffic to specified end stations and reducing
overall network traffic
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(For IGMP devices) IGMP snooping for efficiently forwarding multimedia and multicast traffic
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Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) snooping for IGMP Versions 1, 2, and 3 for
efficiently forwarding multimedia and multicast traffic
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IGMP report suppression for sending only one IGMP report per multicast router query to the
multicast devices (supported only for IGMPv1 or IGMPv2 queries)
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IGMP snooping querier support to configure switch to generate periodic IGMP General Query
messages